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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (-5 - +65)

Epistula LXXVIII.
Toto contra ille pugnet animo; vincetur, si cesserit, vincet, si se contra dolorem suum intenderit. Nunc hoc plerique faciunt, adtrahunt in se ruinam, cui obstandum est. Istud quod premit, quod inpendet, quod urget, si subducere te coeperis, sequetur et gravius incumbet; si contra steteris et obniti volueris, repelletur. …
[Let such a man fight against them with all his might: if he once gives way, he will be vanquished; but if he strives against his sufferings, he will conquer. As it is, however, what most men do is to drag down upon their own heads a falling ruin which they ought to try to support. If you begin to withdraw your support from that which thrusts toward you and totters and is ready to plunge, it will follow you and lean more heavily upon you; but if you hold your ground and make up your mind to push against it, it will be forced back. …]
(…., Ad Lucilium Epistulae morales, London 1970, p. 190 / 191.)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1987)

7 [63]
Muß nicht alle Philosophie endlich die Voraussetzungen, auf denen die Bewegung der Vernunft ruht, ans Licht bringen? Unseren Glauben an das Ich, als an eine Substanz, als an die einzige Realität, nach welcher wir überhaupt den Dingen Realität zusprechen? Der älteste „Realismus“ kommt zuletzt ans Licht: zu gleicher Zeit, wo die ganze religiöse Geschichte der Menschheit sich wiedererkennt als Geschichte vom Seelen-Aberglauben. Hier ist eine Schranke: unser Denken selbst involvirt jenen Glauben (mit seiner Unterscheidung von Substanz-Accidens, Thun, Thäter usw.), ihn fahren lassen heißt nicht-mehr-denken-dürfen. /318/
Daß aber ein Glaube, so nothwendig er ist, zur Erhaltung von Wesen, nichts mit der Wahrheit zu thun hat, erkennt manz.B. selbst daran, daß wir an Zeit Raum und Bewegung glauben müssen, ohne uns gezwungen zu fühlen, hier absolute [+++]
(4582, Sämtl. Werke Bd. 12, Nachgel. Fragmente, München/Berlin/New York 1980, S. 318.)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (-5 – +65)

Epistula LXXVIII.
Toto contra ille pugnet animo; vincetur, si cesserit, vincet, si se contra dolorem suum intenderit. Nunc hoc plerique faciunt, adtrahunt in se ruinam, cui obstandum est. Istud quod premit, quod inpendet, quod urget, si subducere te coeperis, sequetur et gravius incumbet; si contra steteris et obniti volueris, repelletur. ...
Let such a man fight against them with all his might: if he once gives way, he will be vanquished; but if he strives against his sufferings, he will conquer. As it is, however, what most men do is to drag down upon their own heads a falling ruin which they ought to try to support. If you begin to withdraw your support from that which thrusts toward you and totters and is ready to plunge, it will follow you and lean more heavily upon you; but if you hold your ground and make up your mind to push against it, it will be forced back. ...
(...., Ad Lucilium Epistulae morales, London 1970, p. 190 / 191.)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (60)

Itaque dum incipit esse mentis tuae, interim hoc consilio sapientium utere, ut magis ad rem existimes pertinere, quis, quam quid acceperit.
(6307, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales I, Cambridge Mass. + London1979, LIX, p. 132.)
Therefore, while you are beginning to call your mind your own, meantime apply this maxim of the wise: consider that it is more important who receives a thing, than what it is he receives.
(tamtéž, str. 131, překlad: Richard M. Gummere.)